Gosh Josh. This is a nice topic. And there’s again. A lot of information. -----‘----- @0:00 Welcome! @2:22 A Quirky Morse Key. @4:01 Software for morse code. @5:29 Merchandise? @6:13 Mobile Setup&Tips. @8:00 His Mobile radio’s. @9:10 Starting Out. @11:26 The value of Mobile radio’s @13:03 Cons? @15:01 Installing A Mobile Radio. @17:15 Vehicle Grounding. @17:57 Fuse add-ons @18:47 an add-on tip. @19:24 The Firewall Headache @21:41 Finding a place in the car. @23:40 Mounting the head unit. @25:57 I buried the radio, Now what?! @27:55 VHF & UHF Antenna’s. @30:03 Lip Mount. @32:47 LOCTITE!! @33:13 HF @34:14 Mag mounts. @36:19 HF in a vehicle. @36:52 Ground Plane. @39:12 Lock Washers. @41:50 HF antennae. @44:59 His HF Mobile Antenna. @45:49 The Impotance Of Bonding. @47:23 Mobile HF Antennae cont. @48:55 Dealing with Noise! @51:25 RFI Chokes. @54:25 Recommended Radio’s. @1:00:08 Questions. @1:14:05 Thank You Patreons ! @1:18:39 Keep Up The Podcast and the margarita’s ! -----‘----- I hope it helps. If editing is needed please let me know.

Just passed the Technician exam today! First try. Thanks for the inspiration. Now I have an excuse to spend $$$ on a mobile and can finally use my HTs as soon as I get the call sign.

Yes thank you for help with my tech exam. I took it Saturday, 8 June and passed. I think I will start on General next. But I am here now thinking of getting a mobile radio.

Another nice video.... I've a mobile V/UHF in my LR2 which was simple to install but my preferred mobile setup: FT3D on my motorcycle! Radio mounted to the bars using a generic phone holder, power comes from the Yaesu 12V adaptor (Empty AA battery adaptor installed to save constant charge of standard battery), Mic/Tels via bluetooth to my helmet kit. Antenna is a Nagoya on Nagoya mount attached to the rear grab bar and bonded to the frame. Gets out a treat!!

To the Landrover guy: buy some N52 grade large supermagnets. Put your magnetic antenna on the roof, nor slip the supermagnets under the headliner, and as they align in place, mark the locations then epoxy them there. Beware, supermagnets can "jump" and seriously bite your flesh if you give them a chance too. Works on fiberglass roofs too. Use a big magmount (5-6") and don't skimp on the N52 magnets.

Just hit the hat trick last night, so waiting for my call.. your videos have helped a lot, good info and you have fun with it. Now you need to have a ham boot camp and let me come hang out for a few days 🤣 73’s

Direct to the battery - and fuse it appropriately with a blade type fuse in a good waterproof fuse holder. I do NOT fuse negative or run it directly to the battery - which is what a lot of old timers recommend "because the radio manual says so"... but the standard to take both leads directly to the battery are archaic, based in a time when not all vehicles (some big trucks) were negative ground, and most radios were floating ground. Those days are long gone. Their logic is usually "The manufacturers recommend this way, and they must have a reason" - yes, they do have a reason ... because nobody's rethought that "best practice" in the last 50 years and the problems that can arise from it are rare enough that it's not worth it for them to pay to reassess the situation. I run + directly to the battery or the positive connection point on the vehicle for newer vehicles, or cars with batteries in weird places - the + "jump point" is where you should hook up to in those cars, and the neg to the vehicles common ground point where all grounds come together.

Shack in a pickup truck . Yaesu FT857D With a ATAS 120A Screw driver antenna . Served me fine for 7 years. As long as you ground the antenna correctly.. With separation kit , and a Duplexer...

+1 for the Lido mount. Best damn thing for cell phones or radio heads! I use two. 3M makes an "industrial" clear "velcro" that holds toll passes on superhot windshield glass, that's also great.

I have done several mobile installs for CW mobile. As far as hidden antenna car is black and 2M antenna Diamond I spray paint black. Yes, already black but it will get weathered and looks great. Hard to see antenna as it matches car paint. Mounting head unit to front seat post best option. I have removed units and no one can tell I have had a ham radio in the car. Drill no holes, no damage to vehicle. Have fun with radios.

L cut h cut, slope. Lowpass and highpass filters, slope of filter being the db/octave it attenuates the signal. Most vehicles can ground anywhere, if you have the vehicle properly grounded and it is always preferable to go to the frame with as short of a cable as possible. And if you've properly RF Bonded your entire vehicle as you should, you'll have no issues.

Use a 3/4" Greenlee die to cut the hole in the roof. It will seal up with a rubber grommet provided. Pulling the headliner loose you will be able to route your coax to the trim and then behind the trim to the floor. You can go under the carpet by lifting the foot sill and run the coax under the carpet to under the dash near where the radio is mounted.

Hi folks. There was a question about mobile stealth antennas. Sinclair makes the StealthWave behind the bumper antennas and a variety of low profile antennas. STI-CO also makes covert oem style antennas for uhf/vhf.

I like my tyt 9800, it's been a good radio in my truck or as my portable rig. I will eventually get another for vhf/uhf portable. I also use ham radio as a stress relief.

Havent ever been in a HRO store, but they sure do have AWESOME sales/service through their website. Ordered my shack gear from them and they had it on the way to me the next day! And the best prices I could find to boot!

About 50% done with installation of FTM-400XDR in 2020 F250 and about 50% done with general arrl Manual. Hopefully the FTM-400 will be up and running tomorrow. I powered it on today and it’s asking for a call sign. NMO Mount drilled through the roof for best ground plane. Fingers crossed al goes good.

In the CB days I had a mount that would attach to the radio with a piece of coax that screwed into the radio. The mount that attached to the vehicle had a cable with a SO239 and power wires to splice the factory wires to. They may be a little hard to find but they were easy to find back in the CB days. They had extra wires so you could hook the external speaker to and plug it into the radio.

If you go through the firewall but can't fit the fuse holders go ahead and cut them off so you can feed the power cable through the grommet. Once it is through the firewall use heat shrink and solder the wires back together and heat shrink the joints. A larger piece can go over both wires that have had heat shrink covered the individual wires.

The new Ford Broncos have pre wired/powered lines already ran in vehicle.

7.62, 5.56, 5.45, 54r, all fun. Installed an ftm400 in a tacoma. Comet antenna off the back end. Seems to work well. Head on top of dash with ram mount. Body under pass seat on a custom bracket with velcro. I do get clicking sound running audio into the truck aux. I hope this is eliminated with a dedicated speaker.

Before deciding on a do it all radio ask yourself how much VHF and UHF you do when in the vehicle. Do you tend to do more with HF while driving? Then you would do better by getting a separate dual band radio and a good HF mobile radio. That way you can monitor your local repeater if you want while operating on HF. When I was working for a living I would work HF regular going to work. My friends from work who were also hams would ask me why I wasn't on the local repeater on the way to work? I told them I was on HF. I had the Alinco HF/VHF/UHF. So I bought a lesser expensive dual band radio and ran both at the same time. That way I knew if one of my co-workers was calling me on a repeater while I was on HF. I usually monitored a net on HF and chose not to monitor only the repeater.

You know what would be the ultimate mobile radio setup? A quad-band radio like the KG-UV980P but with the remote head of the BTech 50x3... that head is a "mount to windshield" almost gps-style head with speakers built-in. If I recall correctly, the 980P can do down to 10 meters (11 really I think) and 6 meters and 2 meters and 70cm for TX. I think it can RX 7 bands, including airband. There are supposedly antennas that can work with all that, but I have to admit to being a noob still studying for my test so I don't have any experience with them yet lol. But I like the idea of having a radio like that which can be easily unlocked if you can find the software to do it (or possibly purchased directly from the factory shop already unlocked) so that it can be used as an emergency backup for other radios too. To be clear, I don't mean to use this for talking on CB or GMRS etc unless it's an emergency situation where I didn't have any of my HTs for those, but I like to have as many options as possible for communication in an emergency. I think having a radio capable of so much makes for a decent emergency backup to the radios we generally use more daily. If you're out and about when an emergency hits, it seems like a good idea to have those options in your vehicle. Sorry if you covered all this before. I only recently found your channel here and am still exploring your back catalog lol. PS - I'm pretty sure the 980P comes with the remote head extension cable and also, it's Wouxon, so it's Super-het instead of system on a chip and able to do proper, real, dual receive. Also, what do you consider to be "great features" in a radio? One of the things that is drawing me to the 980P when I can get it is the channel group scanning. I like the idea of having different bands in their own groups... like a group for GMRS scanning and a group for First responder scanning and a group of just the weather stations or the marine frequencies etc. If I'm driving the PCH (that's one of the things I miss most about living in cali lol) Then I might just want to scan the marine band to listen in on boats and stuff. If I'm driving inland, I might want to monitor both CB and GMRS for traffic info. I can't imagine I would hear anything useful down in CB land until more CBs have FM tho now that that's a thing, thank you Cobra lol.

Good morning from the Philippines! This is DW2KBF. 73!

I must say that the memes from back in the day were likely what hooked me. Also, I used to have that exact same sloth shirt...

This is some snazzy info my dude, missed the stream but glad you've kept the vod up.

Besides using double-sided tape, you could try using Velcro. Easy to stick and un-stick the radio head (for maybe hiding it while parked), and it is reusable.

I started with a Baofeng on a mag mount in my truck. I saved up for a TYT-7800 which is still in my truck today with the mag mount. The antenna is the next upgrade, but how to mount on the truck is a challenge when you park in a parking ramp daily.

Just ordered a FTM400 as my shack radio (since I put my 9800 in my car) and I was very happy to see it on top of your list. Looks like I made the right choice over the 5100, I tend to agree with your persuasion in radios lol

The Midland Micro Mini 15 watt GMRS comes with a slide in/out mobile mount.

I have an ft891 as a base station with the intention of going mobile with it when I out grow it as a base station

I have a 2018 Ford Raptor (all aluminum body). Does an aluminum body introduce special installation considerations for an HF radio? If so, what must I do for proper installation?

Common Mode chokes do what your are doing with the wrapping on the core you were discussing. It’s good to have some handy.

The Xiegu G90 in a car could kinda work with the GSOC (once they finally get it right).

I have an ic-7100 good radio it's my first and only so yeah.

GREAT VIDEO! THANK YOU! This is the first Live Stream video I have watched. Took a lot of screenshots and made notes. What about the Yaesu FT-857D radio? It is HF/VHF/UHF.

good video, thanks

great video--thanks for taking the time

Josh, I really enjoy your videos that are not live stream. Have you thought of dividing the channel into two: one for live stream and one for programs not live stream. I would certainly subscribe to the non live stream.

The Kenwood TM-V71A DOES have a remote head.

Motorcycles get in the carpool lane too though you will be paying attention to driving so you wont be playing with your radio.

Explain why Kenwood or Icom use a fuse on both the positive and the negative lines?

This is the first show that I watched. What do think of the ICON 706? 706MKIIG? I’m into doing CW Mobile!!!! I need to install grounding straps on my Dodge pick up. I “prefer” to install a Tarheel antenna on the front end of the vehicle. How difficult would it be to install 4 deep cycle batteries in the bed of the pick up to operate on field day and have the truck alternator charge them? Thanks for great show!

I beg to differ on coax length especially on VHF/UHF been at this since 1974…. Multiples of 1/2 wavelength

So I hand an f150 which is aluminum. Does this change anything as far as bonding?

The Little Tarheel 2 is not very heavy. it's just shy of 2 lbs with the standard whip on it, weighed on my digital kitchen scale. There are less expensive screwdrivers but many have a reputation for failure and expensive repairs. You get what you pay for. I would never try the Icom due to the huge number of complaints of failure and $270 repair bills, the Diamond only as a second choice. Icom's only positive is that it covers all bands but it requires their tuner too. ultimately there is no savings there. Buy what you like choose well and you wont have to buy it again, and again.

Thoughts on the kenwood tm-d710g vs ftm400 vs icom 7100? Like the idea of the 7100 base station. Like the screen on the ftm 400 but leaning toward the kenwood for the tactility of the buttons and just functionality.

Two years on and this new HAM is getting great info from this video for my first mobile install. Antenna question: What are the thoughts on some of the compact dual band antennas out there? I am thinking of a mag mount on the top center of my F150 and want to keep my profile a little lower with a compact.

Best recommended mobile that will tx 136-176

Comprod also has stealth options.

I am trying to get back into ham radio with a dual band radio mobile. I have pretty much decided on the icom 2739a but it appears that antennas and mounts cost almost as much as the radio. Is this normal?

Hi just got Licensed KO4DXC Thanks for tips . I'm Struggling with comms. need to be guided on with with stations to go for QSO, on HF.

I know I'm way late to the party, but a set of glow rods make pulling wires thru firewalls a breeze most of the time

newbie here. what is the first book recommended for getting into SW/Ham ? I have a Physics degree from many years ago, so I have some basic electronics background. looks very cool.

Hi, Josh. You and Jason convinced me to get my ham license. Did Tech and Gen together. I remember a video where you had installed I think a comet SBB7 near the bottom of your tailgate. I failed to note the mount you were using as I was watching on mu Roku instead of the computer. So now I about to invest in a Yaesu 400 and plan to mount it my rav4 hybrid.For th life of me I cannot find that video to get the description links. Your enthusiasm for the 400 along with the bigger screen than the 300 and 200 finalized my decision. If possible, could you point me to that video?

Surely someone called out the Trex-arms sticker?

loved the info. new to the hobby. i have an ft-70dr, ftm-300dr and the ft-891 with the 120a antenna, and Larson 2/7-sh. the 891 is almost wired up. slow but sure. I've run 8 awg wire from battery to the trunk, Fuses and the battery and fuse blocks in the trunk for connecting each radio. I think this will work, any thoughts? now i just need to do all the bonding. Is there a certain size band that should be used?

Awesome Josh love your videos Ve1 MCD

Hello, silly question. Can I use a cable kit like Diamond 2D4MR, 2D5MR and others to mount directly to the roof of the car or is it just for use on brackets? I can't find anywhere in the pictures if it has a rubber seal due to leaking under the roof. It is not possible to read anywhere what the attenuation is, so I still decide between this from Diamond and T301 from Sirio where at least it provides some information. Thanks to anyone for the advice

Another great video.

Josh, there are most states now that have expressly banned handheld mikes, no exclusion for hams, so a mobile vhf/uhf that allows a pricey bluetooth earpiece, can save you a pricey ticket. Sad, but more states are doing this to prevent distracted driving.

Mobile power problem on new cars: radio makers say go to the battery with dual fuses. Car makers say NO because there is a coulomb counter (power sensor) in one power lead at the battery, and if you bypass this, the car's power management system will not operate properly, all charging may be affected. To make things worse, VWG uses an explosive (pyrotechnic) fuse in that same location, to blow the starter and fuel pump in case the air bags deploy. So if you tap in at the coulomb sensor, beware the possible pyrotechics! It has gotten too damned complicated. Some of the alternators actually TURN OFF at highway speed if there are light loads and the battery is 12.4-12.6 volts, to reduce engine load. So there are good reasons to add a 2nd deep cycle battery, for the radio, using an Echocharget, Yandina isolator, or Hellroarer.

Being brand new to the hobby, I am wondering what the most popular mode is. From what I gather manufacture's have different modes (for lack of a better term) eg. Yaesu and fusion, wiresx. Icom dstar etc. What is the most popular modulation used by most people?

Do you have anything on handle cases for a mobile unit. Similar to what truckers use and take with them when leaving their rig?

7.62x.54R for the win

My man, please answer... Money not an issue.. Would you get the FTM-300 or the FTM-400?

FTM-100dr does ssb!

I made the mistake of thinking portable = Mobile. I was watching to see what power sources you use if trekking etc. Don't think a car battery is an option.

How close can you mount a 20 meter Ham stick and a Dual band antenna on the roof of a car, without negatively affecting the receiving radio via Friis transmission.

Hey, I worked on the app for the LEAF.

I’m having trouble with my mobile build. I’m a newbie. Watched a lot of videos on setup including yours. My issue is that I have all the correct settings on my radio and I’m getting more static than my ht in same location as well as not transmitting to the repeater. I have not seen anything about a ground bond to the lip mount I have installed on my hatchback. Could this be the problem. I don’t own an antenna analyzer yet, and a lil concerned because person I talked to at hro suggested all the material I would need. Could this be the problem? I know it’s a loaded question but everything I find on you tube is about ground bonding is for hf and cb!! Would love any feedback you may have. Thanks again. Ps I have the diamond 770hb and a comet lv-5R universal lip mount attached to ftm 300

Not a toggle switch

How about mounting a HAM antenna to a steel offroad front bumper? Would that work? Or is a magnet a better way to go on the roof?

I'm a technician and I was wondering if i wanted to upgrade could I go straight to extra or would I have to take the general first and then test for extra?

Do we get free ham stuff if we recommend your merchandise....

hey i am a volunteer firefighter in TN is the baofeng uv-5r worth getting programmed for fire service use

Wonder how this could work in a Prius.

Does anyone know how to prevent water leaking into the car through the coax cable? 😐

Hi Josh, how can i connect 2 antenna on my car one for UHF and one for VHF to IC-2730A. what do i need?

HRO gives great customer service. de Dennis KL7HRO not connected

I wish Google Translate would add CW

A year after buying a handful of Baofangs and occasionally trying to understand how to program UK repeaters into them (the cable and mini CD method was a wasted day)I have decided that they are only any good for mid-range walkie-talkies in SHTF situations in my case (I have a 110+ IQ but don't have the interest to learn this stuff without a drill sergeant standing over me).

Icom menus aren't cumbersome

Good afternoon from ohio

Where is the love for lar8 in 7.62x51

Just can't remember your live stream 🤔

T Rex Arms sticker?

Id love to see portions of these livestreams edited into shorter topic videos. It's hard to get much out of a 60+ minute video.

can't watch the video due to 5 min of youtube commercials

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